Scoundrel vs Vagabond - What's the difference?
scoundrel | vagabond |
A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honour or virtue.
* Alexander Pope
A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a hobo.
* Bible, Genesis iv. 12
Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
* Milton
* 1959 , Jack London, The Star Rover
As nouns the difference between scoundrel and vagabond
is that scoundrel is a mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honour or virtue while vagabond is a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.As a verb vagabond is
to roam, as a vagabond.As an adjective vagabond is
floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.scoundrel
English
Noun
(en noun)- Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood / Has crept through soundrels ever since the flood.
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* scoundrellySee also
vagabond
English
Noun
(en noun)- A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.
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(-)- To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.
- Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we.